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Old 06-04-2009, 03:03 PM   #5 (permalink)
Hear Again
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Originally Posted by deafdude1 View Post
He says everyone(with measurable residual hearing) can train to have good speech comphrension by wearing their HAs and training their brains.
If this is true, how come I haven't been able to understand speech with HAs since 1995? I wore my aids 16 hours/day. According to all of my former HA audis (3 in 20+ years), I was always very good at using my residual hearing.
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